71.  Presidential spokesman Prosper Ndouba said Bozize and his followers had fled the city and remained at large.

72.  Presidential spokesman Ricardo de la Torre Gimeno said the president would remain in the town of Chiantla, not far from the accident, to monitor the investigation.

73.  Presidential spokesman Richard Sakala said Chiluba, top civil servants, and police and military chiefs will run the country until a new cabinet is appointed.

74.  Presidential spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao has said the government is willing to discuss with the rebels only the unconditional release of the captives.

75.  Presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky flatly rejected these ideas at a briefing on behalf of Yeltsin, who is recovering from pneumonia at his country home outside Moscow.

76.  Presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky insisted that Yeltsin was hospitalized only for routine tests ahead of bypass surgery.

77.  Presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky refused to comment on why it took Yeltsin so long to make the appointment.

78.  Presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky refused to comment on why the appointment was made now.

79.  Presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said he did not know if a decision had been made.

80.  Presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said Monday that Yeltsin will be moved to the Moscow Cardiological Center at least a day before the surgery.